"Spectator". Competitions

RULES AND CONDITIONS

Entries must be typed or very clearly written on one side of the paper only. The name and addressor pseudonym, of the competitor must be on each entry and not on a sephrato sheet. - When a word limit is net words must be counted and the number given. No entries can be returned. Prizes may be divided at the discretion of the judge, or withheld if no entry reaches the required standard. The judge reserves the right to print or quote from any entry. The judge's decision is final, and no correspondence can be entered into on the subject of the award. Entries must be addressed to :-The Editor, the Spectator, 99 Gower Street,

London, W.C. 1, and be marked on the envelope Competition No. (--).

Competition o N

stage dialogue of Act II., Scene 2 of Romeo and Juliet. Warwick Road, S.W. 5. Long speeches are out of fashion on the stage to-day, and

the whole scene should be cut to not more than 1,000 THE PRIZE POEM.

words, including stage directions. SPRING. Entries must be received not later than Monday, April 25th, 2. A secret and a mystery; 1932. The result of this competition will appear in our issue of 3. The golden waters sweet and cold May 7th, 1932.

Competition No. 5 5 (SET BY " CARD.") 6. A gleam of blue, a glare of gold. A PRIZE of £2 2s. is offered for the best reply, in the form 7. The simple sheep aro feeding now of a letter of not more than 250 Words, to the last of the 9. Or having climbed some high cliff's brow, "Points from Letters," headed " Grave Charge," printed to. Silver the simple grass like rime. on page 593 of this week's Spectator. 11. The naked earth is warm with Spring,

Entries must 1)0 received not later than Monday, May 2nd, 13. From thickets where primroses hide, 1932. The result of this competition will appear in our issue of 14. The melodies of birds and bees May 14th, 1932. 15. Encompass me on every side ;

The result of Competition No. 53 will appear in our 16. Among the sad abiding trees next issue. 17. The ancient pulse of germ and birth A PRIZE of il ls. is offered cads week for a new and -Fhe Praise of iselt.”

May 2nd, 1932. Entries should be marked " Limerick SECOND PRIZE WINNERS.

No. 25." SPRING. The result of the twenty-third of these competitions I. How sweet the morning air in Spring, will be announced in our next issue. 2. How green the earth, how blue the sky, fIt is requested that, to facilitate the work of the 4. Still the thrush sings, the blackbirds cry. judges, entries should, when possible, be submitted on 5. 0 hush, my heart, and take thine ease, postcards.] (I. The labour and the wounds are vain, Result of Limerick Competition No. 22 8. With leaping sun, with glancing rain. THE most popular subjects for Limericks this week were so. 0 give me Spring for life and love,

Blake (E. M. Forster), Saint Therese (Sheila Kaye-Smith), D. Orchard and buttercup and bird, The Earth is Round (Moth), " See Naples and Die " (Derek 12. The earth beneath, the sky above.

Verschoyle). 13. Singing, or flame, or scent, or hue- The prize is awarded to W. Hodgson Burnet, Salisbury 14. Read out my words at night, alone, Tower, Windsor Castle. 15. I heard the green things praising you, THE WINNING ENTRY,

Report of Competition No. 5 z

(REPORT AND AWARD BY " DuGLI.") A PRIZE of £2 2s. was offered for a Patelnvord Poem on Spring, in not less than twelVe or more than twenty lines, each line being taken from a different published English poem. No poet might be quoted more than twice, and full references were to be given. This has been is popular competition, and almost all the entries have been good ones. Competitors have tossed together Nashe and Byron, Pope and Christina Rossetti, Chatterton and Chesterton, and the results have been salads in which each ingredient has brought out the flavour of the rest. The judging has been difficult. There is a large first class of competitors who have succeeded not only in welding the lines together so that the joints cannot be seen, but in pro- ducing reasoned and musical poems. The following are Highly Commended :-T. E. Casson, who begins, with cruel truth in this present April winter, by asking, Where are the songs of Spring 2" Golden Patches, Guy Lines, Miss G. Russell, 14. Donald, E: M. Hone, Anne Stanton, F. M., may I. E. Dolphin, Mercury and Agricola.

University, St. Andrews ; and Lieut.-Col. F. A. Goddard, 45

I .re The crocus works among the mould 4. Are languid in the idle bay, 3. Revealing-as the skies unfold- 8. On mountain heights in morning's prime ; 12. Which here enamels everything.

18. Thrills in passion, grief or mirth.

Limerick Competition No. 25 ,. Drinkuuder, "A Town Window." 2. Mewled?, "To the Beloved." 3. TI/mm, (Rev.) ALEXANDER SMART, " Farewell." 4. Gould," Fallen Cities." 5. Noyes,"The Moon Is Up." 0. C'herarrtan, 7. Paridson, "A Cinque Pori: 8. Meredith," The Lark 3. There is a song in each green thing,

7. The little orchards sleep in peace, 9. In misty blue the lark is heard,

16. As if the Spring were all your own. ' LADY IRVINE: AN INCREASE IN CRIME (page 467). 1. II. Jr. Doris,, "Early Spring." 2. Laurence Housinme, "The Settlers." 3. There has boon a large increase in crime Freelegoad Share," The Garden in Spring." 4. lidea Phillpotte," Triads." 5. Lisette And Pm going to commit one in rhyme H'. Reece," April Weather." a Arthur Hugh (gough," Say Not the StrUggle." 7, Bliss t 'ame, " The Keeper's Silence." 8. R. L. S., "The House Beautiful.' 0. Lancet. Just to hear people say sisros, "In In Misty Blue." 10.• G. D. Martineau, " The Last Spring." II. Emily In their serious way hickineon," The Waking Year." 12. Alfral Coltrane," The Fishermen." 18. Raped That my " upbringing's miliel3- to Mime." Brooke," Dust." 14../. E. Hecker, " To a Poet One Thousand Years Hence." 15. W. HODGSON BURNET. Katherine Tynan," Green Spring." 10. Sir Henry Wotron," To Elizabeth of Bohemia."

&arm. 1. Yes, 'tis the pulse of Life ! My fears were vain ! ' `,. At last, from Aries rolls the. bounteous sun

3. And Earth assumes her transient- youth again. - 4. O'er the flat green, refreshing breezes run :5.And the leaves greet thee, Spring!-the joyous loo.‘'es 6. From every hedge and every thicket there, 7.Born of the very sigh that silence heaves, R. Drink in the light, and strengthen and grow fair. 9. The green buds glisten in GM dews of Spring, N. Hope of yet happier days, whose dawn is nigh, 11. And, midst their sweets, the feather'd poets sing, 12. Glad.astlie sunshine and the laughing-sky,

13. I paint thee oft, scarce consciously, a scene

14. - Which adds new glories to the shiningSphere,

15. More pleasing seems than all the past bath been

16. And slow and sure comes up the golden Year. . Lt.-Col. F. A. GODDARD. 1. Rogers, " Verses to be Spoken by Mrs. Siddons, 1705." I. Thomson, "The Seasons: Spring." 3. Cooper, Elegy V.," On the Approach of Spring." 4. Purnell, " Health-An Eclogue." 5. Houses, " Breathings of Spring." e. Wilfrid Blunt, "A Day he Susses." 7. Keats, "The Coming of Summer.' 8. ll'Illis, "Elms of New Haven." 9. Kale," Christian Year, Twenty-third Sunday after Trinity." 10. Bryant," The Ages." 11. Young, "The Instalment, to the Rt. Hon. Elfr R. {Vall:tie." 12. Glare, " The Thrush's Nest:. 13. II mans, - To a Distant scene:_ .14. Pope, "Rape of the Lock." 15. CamiAll," Pleasures of Hope," Part 1, 16. Trinnyrat "The Golden Year." '